Michael Fadum’s most recent poem to appear here was “Across the Pond” (August 2017)
Love Fell to the Floor
By Michael Fadum
Punch drunk from time and old age
He wasn’t a player who struts on the stage
But fell off when he saw
A young woman take off her visage
She showed her strength sipping red wine
He bowed to her one last time
Waiting for gravity to reverse
He loved her in dirty blonde
And when streaks of grey flecked
Her face and blended with almond
Till he couldn’t stand on deck the pine wood ship
Went down in clay red dirt but despite the wreck
He carried on with an LED torch
As waves of earth covered the front porch
She loved to sit in a rocking chair reading alone
The deck wood throne her uncle made from the bones
Of her grandmother’s ranch house home
